What Haneul remembers most about his time in the North Korean military is the gnawing, continuous hunger. He lost 10kg in his first month of service, due to a diet of cracked corn and mouldy cabbage.
Three months into training, he says almost his (...)
South Korea's opposition leader Lee Jae-myung called for swift action to stabilize the country following the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, urging cooperation between the government and parliament to address the crisis.
Speaking on Sunday, (...)
South Korea's parliament voted on Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol following his controversial martial law decree earlier this month.
The move ended a period of political paralysis but ignited a fierce national debate over Yoon's (...)
The news is moving so quickly in South Korea, the papers can no longer keep up. President Yoon Suk Yeol's shock attempt to impose martial law last Tuesday night was so short-lived it failed to make the front page. By the time he despatched the (...)
A federal court in St Louis has indicted 14 North Koreans for allegedly being part of a long-running conspiracy aimed at extorting funds from US companies and funneling money to Pyongyang's weapons programs.
The wider scheme allegedly involves (...)
South Korea's ruling party has thrown its support behind attempts to impeach embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol over his ill-fated decision to declare martial law that sparked a political crisis and widespread public anger in the country.
The (...)
North Korea has responded to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed attempt to impose martial law, likening it to a military coup and accusing him of trying to run a "fascist dictatorship".
Yoon made the shock declaration last week, accusing (...)
A 92-year-old Japanese man who lived through the American atomic bombing of Nagasaki called for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, as he accepted this year's Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday.
"Imagine this: there are 4,000 nuclear warheads that could (...)
South Korean authorities have imposed a travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol, who is under investigation for his short-lived martial law declaration last Tuesday.
Yoon narrowly survived an impeachment motion against him over the weekend, after MPs (...)
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered the arrest of his own ruling party's leader Han Dong-hoon when he declared martial law on Tuesday night.
The arrest list also included the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, Lee Jae-myung, (...)
South Korea's main parties are holding emergency meetings amid reports MPs could bring forward a vote to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over Tuesday night's short-lived martial law declaration.
The main opposition Democratic Party says the vote, (...)
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing mounting pressure to resign over his failed attempt to impose martial law, as parliament moves closer to a vote on his impeachment.
The capital Seoul has seen a second day of street protests demanding (...)
South Koreans have been describing feelings of worry, shock and confusion after the country's president plunged the country into political chaos — declaring martial law and hours later revoking the move after a major outcry.
In a televised address (...)
Opposition parties in South Korea submitted a motion on Wednesday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeoul, who is facing mounting calls to step down after he imposed a short-lived martial law order which thrust the country into political (...)
Nineteen-year-old Hwang was watching the protests in Georgia on Tuesday night's news when the images on TV suddenly changed — the spotlight was on his country after South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol announced martial law.
"I couldn't believe (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed continued support for Russia's war in Ukraine during a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, according to state media reports Saturday.
The discussions signal deepening military and (...)
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov met with his North Korean counterpart No Kwang Cho for talks in Pyongyang on Friday, in what Belousov said was an effort to expand military cooperation between the two countries.
The Russian defense chief (...)
Russia attacked Ukraine early in the morning on Thursday with scores of missiles and drones launched across the entire country, targeting the energy grid and leaving up to 1 million Ukrainians without electricity.
Explosions were reported in (...)
North Korea is expanding a weapons plant that manufactures missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, according to new research from a US-based think tank.
The facility produces both KN-23 missiles (Hwasong-11A) and KN-24 missiles (Hwasong-11B), (...)
Russia is estimated to have supplied North Korea with more than a million barrels of oil since March this year, according to satellite imagery analysis from the Open Source Center, a non-profit research group based in the UK.
The oil is payment for (...)
The US embassy in Kyiv has shuttered fearing an imminent "significant air attack" in Kyiv, according to a statement published on its website.
"Out of an abundance of caution, the embassy will be closed, and embassy employees are being instructed to (...)
Russia says the use of US long-range missiles by Ukraine will lead to "an appropriate and tangible" response.
Such an attack inside Russian territory "would represent the direct involvement of the United States and its satellites in hostilities (...)
Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken after a long-awaited decision came from Washington giving permission for Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets deeper inside Russia.
But despite Zelensky pleading such permission for weeks, (...)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un has called for accelerated mass production of exploding drones designed to crash into targets, state media said on Friday.
Kim said the development of the weapons in the country was going well, and stressed the need (...)
A massive drone strike rattled Moscow and its suburbs overnight into Sunday, injuring several people and temporarily halting traffic at some of Russia's busiest airports, officials reported. Meanwhile, a huge night-time wave of Russian drones (...)
